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How big was the school you went to? Can you imagine a school that covers 48,000 square kilometres? There is one - and it's in the Torres Strait. Tagai State College has campuses throughout the islands. According to executive principal Judy Ketchell, it's probably the only school in the world that ...

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Do you remember your first piano lesson? Or taking up the guitar as a teenager? It turns out some of these early experiences with music can be key to the way our brains develop. Dr Anita Collins is a neuromusical educator - and recently was named music educator of the year at the Australian Women in ...

The government and the opposition have united to support removing laws which allow religious schools to discriminate against students based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. But the government has stopped short of supporting similar changes that would protect teachers. The ...

Parents wanting to send their child to private school may end up spending nearly half a million dollars on fees over their child's school life. But private school enrolments are now declining - shifting a twenty year trend. Have the fees become too much for parents to justify? Stephen Grieve is the ...

Dr Martin Seligman about how he's learned to overcome his catastrophic thought patterns using positive psychology. In Part Two of his interview, he discusses how positive psychology is being taught to children in schools. He tells Life Matters' Executive Producer Angela Owens that the concept ...